Weekend at Dunkirk
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Weekend at Dunkirk is a 1964 drama film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. It is based on the 1949 Prix Goncourt winning novel Week-end at Zuydcoote (French: Week-end à Zuydcoote) by Robert Merle.
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Plot
Set during World War II, it follows Julien Maillat, a French soldier who tries to join the British Army on the Royal Navy flotilla to England by boat. No matter how hard he tries to make it he and his French partners are hard pressed to get away as the fight is getting harder and the Germans closer and closer.
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Selected cast
- Jean-Paul Belmondo as Julien Maillat
- Catherine Spaak as Jeanne
- Jean-Pierre Marielle as Pierson
- Pierre Vernier as undertaker
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